this guy henry morrison flagger, the tycoon largely credited with big the father of modern florida. his dream was the florida east coast railroad, which would run from jacksonville to key west connecting the ports of miami to the rail system of the rest of the united states, creating along its route new towns, new cities, new places where america s rising middle class could frolic and play. he agreed to lay a foundation for a city on both sides of the miami river. as more and more whites moved in, segregation took hold and much of the community was forced into the black neighborhoods like overtown. if you re looking for old miami, original miami, you re looking to an extent for black miami.
dank atmosphere pretty good for a guy that s seen it all. that s 73 years ago. fort benning, georgia. i was the second armored division. matt klein came from new york s lower east side by way of the battle of normandy. i came here pause i was wounded and the warm weather was much better for me. but there was a lot of g.i.s during the war here, right? the war made miami beach for the reason that the people that were stationed here and they saw a world that they didn t believe. during world war ii, miami saw a massive influx of military personnel. hotels, which had seen a sharp drop in business, made a deal with the government to house troops in empty resorts. parents came down, sons came down, they opened businesses here, and they were basically jewish at the time and that s how it started. by the fall of 1942, more than 78,000 troops were living
was the hardest working man in show business. you make him look lazy. let s review, band leader, producer, a teacher. yep. a d.j. technically, i have 16 jobs right now. devilled eggs with fresh dill and trout roll will be so over next year, but right now i want like ten more. delicious. fried beans with pork belly. this is the perfect thing for a guy looking to squeeze into a size 28 speedo tomorrow and hit the beach. how long you have been in miami? what makes the miami sound different from the detroit sound, the philadelphia sound, the new york sound, whatever? you can t say philadelphia has strings in their arrangement whereas records had organ in there. but this is the beginning of
we re a bohemian town, we were a miami town. we re from different cultures. very, very different. how has that mix, how has that impacted the music? it is everything in the music. when people think about me, this guy makes bootie shaking music. everybody is dancing in a sexual way. jamaicans, they are wine i m sure you know, the girls are standing up on you and they put their butt up on you. the girls stand up on you and put your butt on you. i ve seen this on television. it s no different than a lap dance. you ran for office? yeah. about 70% residents of miami speak spanish at home. uh-huh. enormous african-american and caribbean community. how come they keep electing
serving over-the-top southern classics to those like well, us. the old joke was james brown was the hardest working man in show business. you make him look lazy. let s review, band leader, producer, a teacher. yep. a d.j. technically, i have 16 jobs right now. devilled eggs with fresh dill and trout roll will be so over next year, but right now i want like ten more. delicious. fried beans with pork belly. this is the perfect thing for a guy looking to squeeze into a size 28 speedo tomorrow and hit the beach. how long you have been in miami? what makes the miami sound different from the detroit sound, the philadelphia sound, the new york sound, whatever? you can t say philadelphia has strings in their arrangement whereas records had organ in there. but this is the beginning of